It can take many different forms
and can be at many different levels. The highest level is the National
flag of a country.

In the military there are also important flags.

Infantry units and some others, have flags called The Queen's Colour and
the Regimental Colour.

These get called 'the Colours'.
As a pair they are called a "Stand of Colours"

Cavalry, Lancer,
Light Horse and
Mounted Infantry units and the armoured units that grew from them have
Guidons.

They are of a different shape but have the same function and
command the same respect as Colours.

The Artillery do not
have Colours or Guidons.

Their Guns are considered
to be their Colours.

Artillery
do not have Battle Honours either.

Their single
Honour is "Ubique" which means
"Everywhere".

Non fighting Units do
not have Colours.

They may have Standards or Banners. Colours are
battle flags and so are only available to fighting units.

The Army as a whole
does not have a flag or Colours.

It does have a Banner.

Individual
Regiments have colours.

The Army is the
guardian of the National Flag.

This page serves as an index to the
Flags and Colours (in what ever form) on the pages listed here.

Choose your area of interest and enjoy . . .

2860 Private Arthur
Stanley Baker enlisted at Annandale, New South Wales, on 25
September 1916, and served with 60 Battalion, AIF. He died of wounds
in France on 9 August 1918, at the age of 22. This portrait, painted
in 1917, appears to have been copied from a photograph.

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Cloth
badge in the shape of a bow-tie made for the Australian contingent to
the Boer War, 1900. The surprising thing here is that the images
closely resemble the Australian Commonwealth Ensign and the Australian
Red Ensign (without the Federation Star) on a souvenir dated 1900. The
Federation did not take place until 1901 and supposedly the Australian
flag was not designed until 1901 and officially accepted in 1903.